Group Dynamics – The Food Chain

We don’t think about it very much, but our relationship with food has changed radically over the last several hundred years. There is a fun series about this form BBC about how eating trends evolved – especially in how eating was linked to status rather than health. More recently, there has been renewed interest to make our diets more healthy. But this requires coalitions that we do not have. Mark Bittman gives an interesting view of the problem.